Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I know Senator Conroy is stressed because Adelaide is going to beat Collingwood on the weekend, but I ask him why the government continues to refuse a full cost-benefit analysis of its $43 billion NBN proposal when its own Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry, said just last week:

Government spending that does not pass an appropriately defined cost-benefit test necessarily detracts from Australia’s wellbeing.